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Contributing to this blog:
- "Dave" is Dave Barry, who is a humor columnist and presidential contender.
- "judi" is Judi Smith, who is Dave's Research Department, as well as being interested in men.
- "Walter" is Walter, a bone from the penis of a walrus.

(If anyone can direct me to instructions on how to add a link thingie to a post, I promise to stop pasting these annoying URLs)

Anyway, this movie was a creepfest about giant cockroaches from the bowels of the earth that came out to terrorize humans not only with their general bug-iness, but with their uncanny ability to psych out the unsuspecting victims by SPELLING WORDS on the wall with their cockroachy bodies!!!!

Aggggghhhh!

Who remembers the telephone scene?

I will forever have the automatic reflex of looking at the handset before raising it to my ear....even now, on my own cellphone......shiver...shudder....

I seriously doubt that the Capricorn Beetle and the Longhorn steer could form a lasting relationship ... mebbe a one-night stand (or two, or six) ...

No, I think it's much more likely that the Capricorn Beetle could settle down with a goat, however, to a version of the American Dream (living in the suburbs, commute to werk, 2.3 [million?] kids (HAR!) ...

'Extinct' beetle comes out of the woodwork
By Nick Britten
(Filed: 28/05/2005)

A beetle thought to have been extinct in Britain for more than 100 years has been found nesting in a house in Warwickshire.

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The property's owner telephoned experts "in a state of high anxiety" after seeing the giant capricorn beetle crawling across a floor.

The discovery of the beetle, which is 2½ in long, with 4 in long antennae, has delighted scientists at the Stratford Butterfly Farm, who are looking after it. Geordie Jackson, the curator of the insect house, said he was sceptical when the woman described the beetle.

"But it's a great find," he said. "We brought it in here and it seems quite happy. Normally it eats rotten wood and sap although yesterday it was eating pineapple."

While the discovery is great news for the butterfly farm, it is not so good for the beetle's former landlady, who has declined to be named. The insect nested in some reclaimed beams put into the games room of her house in Stratford. The likelihood is that there are more waiting to come out.

The larvae, considered a culinary delicacy in the sub-continent, can cause widespread damage. They live in the wood for about three years before pupating and emerging as a beetle. The capricorn, Cerambyx cerdo, has large, powerful jaws capable of biting through wood, and the odd finger